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It began with

ANNOUNCEMENT: GENERAL HOTEL OPENING DELAY

During our Supersponsor hotel opening, we received multiple reports of issues with the booking software (Passkey) not properly holding attendees’ rooms during booking. We had initially tested this system with Passkey’s tech team, but further investigation revealed underlying issues with the implementation. The fix is currently being looked into by Passkey’s technical team, but we do not currently have a timeline on when it will be resolved.

As a result, we are delaying the General Hotel opening for Anthrocon 2024. We apologize for any inconvenience that this may cause for those who have planned for the February 2 hotel opening. However, we wish to avoid any additional frustration of our members by trying to book a hotel room when the system is not performing as expected. We also sincerely apologize to any of our Supersponsors who were impacted by this situation.

The system is working once again

Online pre-registration will PAUSE on January 30th to get ready for our hotel openings, and re-open on February 2nd at 11am. Anyone that registers after that time will find the hotel booking link in their confirmation!

Register: https://www.anthrocon.org/registration

For the record it’s opened 2 months earlier than last year

For more Info and to Register https://www.anthrocon.org/registration#levels

KDKA did this nice piece on Anthrocon you can watch it here https://www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/video/learning-about-the-history-of-anthrocon/

For literally the 1st time in a few years Anthrocon has regained it’s title as the Largest Furry Convention in The World. So what happened?

If you look at the above numbers you can see Anthrocon has always had a slow and steady growth. Some what like the turtle in the Hare and the turtle story, then this year happened.

Actually there are more than a few reasons why, take Anthrocon itself. It’s not just the convention, it’s the river cruise, the block party and other events the con backs. In addition sadly a few other smaller conventions have closed their doors, and since the end of the pandemic people want to go to cons.

So what will happen at MFF in a few months?!!! That is anyone’s guess…

I want to make this clear these are UNOFFICIAL numbers.

As of this posting Anthrocon has made nothing official

Attendance: 13,644 (they broke MFF’s attendance record by three!)

Fursuiters in Parade: 3,127

Amount donated to charity: $51,064 (and counting!)

Okay folks now get this Anthrocon jumped by 3,742 which makes it the largest jump (when made official) in furry history. But also the 2nd con this year to increase attendance by more than 3,000 FWA being the previous one to do so which itself was a record.

Up until this year some were saying Anthrocon was a slowly dying con. With bare minimum increases in attendance only a few 100s at best. Less Dealers and artist applying for spots. Less fursuiters.

But this year changed all of that, it seems that old friendly competition is back between MFF and Anthrocon as in who will be the biggest.

Will MFF break 16,000? Only time will tell.

Helpful links and info during #Anthrocon!

Schedule: http://anthrocon.sched.com

Livestream: http://anthrocon.tv

Convention map: http://anthrocon.org/2023-convention-map…

Shuttle buses: http://anthrocon.org/shuttle-bus